Brockwell Park Mystery Building
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
It was the changing rooms. Then the Wheels for Wellbeing people kept their bikes in there - and someone set fire to the lot. I saw the police there this afternoon too. Bit curious.
Tricky Skills
Well-Known Member
It was agreed last month to demolish the block, leaving the concrete base only as a 'flexible space for community led sports facilities.'
The cost to demolish?
£500,000 - £600,000.
The cost to demolish?
£500,000 - £600,000.
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
WTF?!?!
Manter
Lunch Mob
Did each breeze block get it's own velvet cushion and private taxi to the dump?
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Think this price includes provision of some facilities on the concrete base.
Manter
Lunch Mob
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Sports stuff apparently.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Good idea!
MAD-T-REX
Well-Known Member
The council could really clean up if they bring a wrecking ball to the Country Show and charge £50 a swing.
snowy_again
Slush
But isn't there already an outdoor gym, or am I failing to read sarcasm?
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Not that I know of.
snowy_again
Slush
Yup, there's wooden stuff situated around the park as a circuit. Not exactly fancy, but it's there.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
The only time I recall going in there was when it being used as the muscians/artists changing room at LL&G Pride 93 when I recall seeing Boy George cowering and refusing to leave because of the crowd, of mostly teenaged girls, outside. Looked like sports changing rooms inside.
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
When I was at secondary school a girl in my year lived there with her family (1990-1996 I knew her), her dad looked after the park. It was a normal house really. She had a key to the gate next to it but we always jumped over the wall from Tulse Hill.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
I demand photos.
you must have seen them.. directly outside the lido there's the overhead monkey bars.. right by the playground there's some stuff.. up the top of Brockwell Park Gardens there is some.. it's all around the periphery.. ery eryery
Yep - leapfrog bits (just uphill from the ponds), benches for sit ups (approaching the Water Lane entrance), a weird set of sloping hurdles for stride jumps (between Cressingham Gdns and Brockwell Park Gdns) , steps (near the playground)...
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Most of the wooden stuff is, quelle surprise, not designed for shortarses, so I haven't even attempted to do more than photograph some of it.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
I've been inside that building several times: sports changing rooms and toilets. Quite spacious iirc. They've had them open at a few festivals in the past - the Cannabis Festivals I think and possibly the country show years ago. They must have been built way longer ago than the 80s cos my Dad remembers playing football tournaments in Brockwell Park in the 70s and using that changing block.
Shame they're gonna be knocked down - I always think something that exists can have a use. Why knock it down for some unspecified, expensive, potential future use?
Shame they're gonna be knocked down - I always think something that exists can have a use. Why knock it down for some unspecified, expensive, potential future use?
Tricky Skills
Well-Known Member
A report [pdf] has appeared overnight, buried away deep down on the Lambeth Council website.
We knew that the changing room block was going to be demolished at a high cost, but with the pay off that it would then become some sort of outdoor gym space.
The report now recommends demolition at a cost of £255,000. And that's it. NOTHING ELSE. It will be left as rubble.
The report also states that the park is unsuitable for sport.
Grant money of £300,000 was secured to pay for refurbishment. They couldn't find a partner to manage the block (and make money) and so it has been returned.
And so over a quarter of a million to bulldoze a building. The net cost of the fireworks was under £10k.
Brixton Buzz piece.
We knew that the changing room block was going to be demolished at a high cost, but with the pay off that it would then become some sort of outdoor gym space.
The report now recommends demolition at a cost of £255,000. And that's it. NOTHING ELSE. It will be left as rubble.
The report also states that the park is unsuitable for sport.
Grant money of £300,000 was secured to pay for refurbishment. They couldn't find a partner to manage the block (and make money) and so it has been returned.
And so over a quarter of a million to bulldoze a building. The net cost of the fireworks was under £10k.
Brixton Buzz piece.
snowy_again
Slush
Why does it cost £1.6m to refurb it into changing rooms? Section 6.1 is also bobbins and then appears to contradict 6.2.
